1.0 link 55258 <![CDATA[You Can't Beat the Odds at the Entropy Casino]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-frauenfelder/you-cant-beat-the-odds-at_b_55258.html In engineering college, my physics professor shared C.P. Snow's shortcut for understanding the Three Laws of Thermodynamics. He likened the laws to the house rules in a cosmic gambling den:

1. You can't win. (You can't create or destroy energy in a closed system.)

2. You can't break even. (You can't convert one form of energy to another with 100% efficiency.)

3. You can't get out of the game. (You can only achieve 100% efficiency at absolute...

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